Senior DevOps Engineer

Insight
Edinburgh, UK
3 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
10 years minimum
Compensation
£86,337.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Kubernetes Security Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Application Release Automation Automation of Tests Cloud Computing Cloud Database Cloud Engineering Cloud Storage Configuration Management Static Program Analysis Encodings Cyber Security
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Continuous Integration DevOps Elasticsearch Github Monitoring of Systems Identity and Access Management OAuth Systems Development Life Cycle Release Management Reliability Engineering Prometheus JSON Web Token Openapi Data Logging Google Cloud Cloud Monitoring Istio Grafana Software Security Apigee Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Gitlab-ci Git Flow Kubernetes Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Deployment Automation Enterprise Integration Api Gateway Restful APIs Terraform Marketplace Devsecops Api Management Serverless Computing Docker Elk Stack Jenkins Vulnerability Analysis

Job description

Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure, primarily on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

  • Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and reusable infrastructure modules.
  • Build self-service platform capabilities for efficient infrastructure provisioning and management by engineering teams.
  • Implement infrastructure standards, governance controls, and automation frameworks across multiple environments.

CI/CD & Release Engineering

  • Design, build, and optimize enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and Harness.
  • Drive deployment automation, release management, environment provisioning, and configuration management.
  • Improve deployment reliability via progressive delivery, automated testing, and deployment guardrails.
  • Champion GitOps and Infrastructure-as-Code practices across engineering teams.

Cloud Architecture & Operations

  • Provide technical leadership on cloud architecture, best practices, and operational excellence.
  • Support cloud-native services including GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, Apigee, VPC Networking, IAM, and Cloud Monitoring.
  • Design resilient and observable systems aligned to enterprise security and reliability standards.

API Platform & Marketplace Enablement

  • Build and maintain infrastructure supporting enterprise API platforms and external marketplace services.
  • Enable secure onboarding of internal and external API consumers.
  • Establish standardized deployment and operational processes for API products and services.
  • Support API gateway technologies (e.g., Apigee) and enterprise integration platforms.
  • Drive incident management, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
  • Improve platform availability, scalability, and performance through automation and engineering improvements.

Monitoring & Observability

  • Implement enterprise monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Google Cloud Monitoring, ELK/Elastic Stack, and OpenTelemetry.
  • Proactively identify issues before they impact customers and engineering teams.
  • Develop dashboards and operational reporting for platform health and reliability.

DevSecOps & Security

  • Embed security best practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
  • Integrate automated vulnerability scanning, code analysis, policy enforcement, and compliance controls into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Partner with Cyber Security teams to ensure compliance with internal and regulatory requirements.
  • Support implementation of secure identity and access management controls across cloud platforms.

Operational Excellence

  • Lead resolution of complex production incidents and service disruptions.
  • Continuously improve operational procedures, runbooks, and platform support processes.
  • Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual effort and improve service reliability.
  • Identify opportunities for cloud cost optimization while maintaining performance and resilience.

Mentoring & Leadership

  • Mentor junior engineers and promote DevOps best practices across the engineering community.
  • Collaborate with architects, developers, testers, platform teams, and product owners.
  • Drive engineering excellence through knowledge sharing, technical leadership, and continuous learning.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.

  • Significant experience operating highly available production systems at enterprise scale, especially on GCP.
  • Expert-level knowledge of Terraform and building reusable infrastructure modules/automation frameworks.
  • Strong hands-on experience with GCP services (GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, VPC Networking, IAM, Secret Manager, Cloud Storage, Cloud Monitoring).
  • Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, container security, service mesh technologies, and managing production Kubernetes environments.
  • Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Harness; ArgoCD desirable).
  • Deep understanding of GitOps, deployment strategies, release automation, and configuration management.
  • Experience with API Gateway technologies (Apigee, Azure API Management, Kong desirable) and API security standards (REST, OpenAPI, OAuth2, JWT).
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry, Google Cloud Monitoring).
  • Strong scripting and automation skills.
  • Experience in embedding security and compliance into cloud and DevOps workflows.

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